In 1983, Atari allegedly buried millions of unsold copies of its rushed E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial cartridge in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, a story that hardened into video game urban legend. Director Zak Penn follows the 2014 excavation crew that finally digs up the site, cameras and press in tow, while cutting back through interviews with the programmers, executives, and marketers who lived through Atari's collapse. Howard Scott Warshaw, who wrote the E.T. game in five weeks under brutal deadline pressure, gives the film its emotional center, reckoning with decades of blame for a crash that had far more causes than one bad cartridge. The documentary traces Atari's rise as the fastest-growing company in U.S. history and its unraveling through oversaturation, corporate mismanagement, and a flooded market, using the landfill dig as both literal excavation and structuring device. Bulldozers turn up cartridges on camera, closing a debate that had run for thirty years.